PETA has a lot in common with Bible-thumping Christians. The majority of Americans don't care what other people eat or worship, but they'd rather not have the beliefs of others pushed on them or preached at them.

I get the feeling there are lots of closet PETA members on FARK, and I find the org more amusing than actually helpful. I pay $16/year to see things like the "Mommy Kills" flyer and they even sent 10 of them in the mail..

However annoying the PETA folks are, I still think it's true that the animals are treated cruelly as they're raised and slaughtered. Is it hypocritical for me to say we shouldn't stop eating meat? Couldn't we just change the way the animals are treated?

"The best thing anyone who doesn't want to support horrific cruelty to animals or put their family in harm's way can do with any meat in their refrigerator is to throw it in the trash can," PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said."

So that the emanciated PETA members can steal it and get their protein for free.

Am I the only one who finds the "cows with guns" mp3/swf insanely annoying?

It seems like since ThreeBrain published "Wheeee," internetters have doubled their time in the nerdery, trying to construct a new animation/song that out-annoys the last. It's like some sort of small penis contest...

"The best thing anyone who doesn't want to support horrific cruelty to animals or put their family in harm's way can do with any meat in their refrigerator is to throw it in the trash can," PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said.

Obviously a much better fate than being eaten and providing nourishment for another living thing.

Actually, the scary part of the study cited in that NIH article is that brain from the mice that didn't get sick was able to then make other mice sick (mice are resistant to the hamster form, much like chicken are resistant to the bovine form...thus always assumed safe). In other words, they were able to get the prion to jump species in a single generation.

I hate PETA. As a meat eater whose mother owns a fur coat, as an American who believes in libertarian "live and let live ideas", and as someone who isn't terribly fond of terrorists, be they of the Saudi-dwelling type or of the California-dwelling variety.

Now here's something I wonder about. PETA has claimed they're fighting a war (jihad?) on behalf of animals. Check their internal memos and propaganda to their more fanatical members. They consider violent acts to be an acceptable means to an end.

So here's what I want to see. I want to see meat-eaters organize. MEAT: Minimizing Eco-freak Assault Tactics.

MEAT would be the commando force that would give PETA a taste of their own medicine. We'd firebomb PETA headquarters, spray Kalashnikov slugs into PETA public demonstrations, and use a phone campaign to solicit donations from all the meat-eaters who are concerned about human (rather than animal) rights.